Recent paintings & water colors by G. Luks [electronic resource]

^hihition of Recent

PAINTINGS WATER COLORS
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GEORGE LUKS

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C. W^. Kraushaar Art Galleries
680 Fifth Avenue, R[ew Tor\

January 12th to 31st

1922

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Mary

Mike McTeague
The New Shoes
The Little Lady
Cyril

Beggar Girl
Paul Verlaine
Girl from ’Tinicus
The White Macaw
New York Cabby
The Bread Woman
Breaker Boy

Carmine and Bleecker Streets [nocturne}
Study for a Portrait
Mrs. Cobey

WATER COLORS

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1 The Sailor

2 Sutton Place, New York City

3 The Soda Water Man

4 The Heckscher Building

5 Junk Shop, Morton Street

6 Washington and Greenwich Streets [night]

7 The Green Signal, Fifth Avenue

8 The Candy Woman

9 Spring Street

10 East River off Sutton Place

11 Josie’s Alley, Greenwich Village

12 Pier 44, North River

13 Noon Hour

14 East Broadway [nocturne]

15 Watts Street, New York City

C. W. KRAUSHAAR

art galleries

680 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK

PAINTINGS
Whistler, La very, Fantin-Latour,
Zuloaga, Legros, Israels, Courbet,
Tack, Daumier, Beal, Monticelli,
Le Sidaner, Sloan, Myers, Sisley
and Luks

BRONZES

Barye, Bourdelle, Mahonri Young

RARE ETCHINGS
Whistler, Legros, Bauer, Zorn,
Muirhead Bone, Brangwyn
and Sir Seymour Haden

McTeague,

In Exhibition
at the
Kraushaar
Art Galleries.

N o lack of contrast in the art
galleries to give a fillip to,
the season at its full. In!
the Kraushaar Gallery is
the recent work of George |
Liiks, a manly exhibition with an 4
odd note of caprice in some of the;
oil paintings. Perhaps it is not ca-|
price but style to make at the last
moment a sketch from a highly de-
veloped picture, to carry it through,
to the very end of technical resource
and then pretend it has just been '
begun. One or two things are like|

that; others — the “ New York Cab-
by,” “ The Bread Woman,’' Czecho- 1
Slovak ” Mary ” — are definite prom-;
ise.s of rich beauty when time has.
had its chance with them. But the;
two masterpieces in the room are
” Mike McTeague,” a baby dipped
in sunlight, all orange and red and
warm, fair flesh color, and '* The
White Macaw,” a girl’s head of be-
wildering beauty seen dimly in the
shadov of a large hat, the great,
sweeping pattern described by the;
hat, the white fichu, the white j
arms, the creamy throat, as splendid;
a piece of design as one need look!
for, the palette set for moonlight, ■
pallid and exquisite. One may ask'
one’s self if the pale color brushed
lightly over a dark ground will agej
properly, but it is fairly safe to as--
sume that it will since Buks is re-f
sponsible for it — incorruptible crafts- i
man that he is; and in any case hej
could not have got this particular
kind of exquisiteness in any other
way. I

The watercolors are as good as the '
oils, a pefson prejudiced in favor of
the clean medium would say even
better than the oils by virtue of a
true spontaneity which has not ex-'
eluded force. It is something to havei
got such force with pure clear wash. !
” Night; Washington and Green-
wich Street” is a powerful design |
in the color. 1